An Overview
Coach Approach Skill Training (CAST) is an accredited and highly interactive course that teaches you the skills of coaching. We equip individuals to effectively coach others and to lead with a coach approach in their work and life context. Through CAST, you will learn the basic and advanced skills of individual, group, and team coaching, plus learn how to integrate the coach approach into your leadership.
Learn more details about CAST at
coachapproachskilltraining.com/coach-training
CAST 1-3 provides 60 hours of coach-specific training approved by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and applicable toward Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credentials. 30 hours of this training are in person in Richardson, with an additional 6 live hours on Zoom. The remaining hours involve reading, study, and written reflections.
Coach Approach Skill Training
Hosted by the Horizon Texas Conference
of The United Methodist Church
February 10-13, 2025
First United Methodist Church Richardson, TX
Trainers: Vicki Johnson and Brian Brown
Fee: $2,700.00
Our Trainers
Vicki Loflin Johnson served for 30 years in the Mississippi Conference in a variety of settings—small church pastor, clergy couple co-appointment, executive pastor, district superintendent, and nine years as senior pastor of a community-focused downtown church. Coaching professionally since 2015, she holds a Level 2/PCC credential with the International Coach Federation, is a Lead Trainer with Coach Approach Skills Training (CAST) and created an advanced Leadership Coach Specialization through Radiant Coaches Academy. Vicki is also certified as an Intentional Interim Ministry Specialist, Spiritual Director, and 200-hour E-RYT yoga instructor and chaired her Conference Board of Ordained Ministry. She founded The Art of WellBeing—offering individual and group coaching designed to support clergy leadership and wellbeing. Vicki and her husband, Roger, live in East Texas. Click here to contact Vicki.
Rev. Dr. Brian Brown is an ordained United Methodist minister who served congregations in Virginia and Ohio for two decades and continues to pastor in the local church. He has served as senior pastor for churches ranging from 50 to over 600 in worship attendance as well as the teaching pastor for a congregation with over 6,000 in worship attendance. Along with being nominated as an episcopal candidate, Dr. Brown has served as a District Superintendent and Dean of the Cabinet. He has over 800 hours of coaching in conflict resolution, cross-racial and cross-cultural appointments, and coaching moving congregations from good to great. He and his wife, Candace, have four children — one in high school, one in college, and two college graduates.